Still and all, since the start of his presidency in early 2009, the unemployment rate has stubbornly stayed above 8%, and now, suddenly, miraculously, weeks before the election, dispassionate ‘proof’ by a government agency that the government’s dealings with our economic malaise are ‘working’ — and the implicational universal is no doubt that we should therefore give the president more time to finish the wonderful trajectory of his management of the economy.